Pride parade group?

[squeakyspooky]

Last year I attended Pittsburgh's pride parade- the first I've ever been to, and it was awesome- and while I'm not too surprised by it, I noticed there was no asexual group in the parade. But looking at the Pittsburgh Pride website, I noticed that there's a little online registration thing where you can enter yourself or a group into the parade as

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[epigones]

this is a really bad idea for multiple reasons, please consider focusing your efforts elsewhere.

[squeakyspooky]

Would you like to share why you consider this to be a bad idea? I knew there was a high possibility of getting a lot of negative responses, but I wanted to see what people would say for either case.

The whole reason I thought of this was because I knew other cities had asexual contingents in their pride parades- its more unusual than not, but its happened. I've heard nothing but good things from the people who were involved at those events, and it just seemed like a very positive thing that groups of people were out there showing their pride to be who they were while also drawing awareness to asexuality at the same time. Obviously it might not work out so perfectly in every case, but so far the reception to asexuals being in the pride marches has been very positive, and thus the idea to try to make it work in my own city came about.

[epigones]

while i understand the desire for asexual representation, pride is absolutely not the place to do it and the reality is that those other asexual groups in pride are present in spite of everything that says they shouldn't be.

as a lesbian woman (and someone who is exploring an asexual identity), i would be incredibly disheartened to find asexual groups participating because they'd be there by virtue of a conceited erasure, and willful overlooking, of queer history especially re: the compulsory desexualization of gay people. that is an issue we haven't really moved past yet.

please just organize community-wide group activities on your own.

[steanne]

if you continually exclude aces from pride events because you're 'just not ready yet', you're never going to BE ready.

[epigones]

it isn't about not being ready, it's about ace representation not being something pride needs or should want.

[epigones]

i don't think i'm taking any personal liberties in talking objectively about why groups that welcome hetero and aro aces shouldn't be participating in an event that is historically for oppressed peoples.

[epigones]

i made it known in my opening comment that i consider myself nebulously asexual, and i'm discussing this with you on the idea that asexuality does exist, so i'm not entirely sure where you're getting the idea that i don't believe it's real from.

[aschvanzandt]

sit

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[disgruntlebeast]

why can't the ace community make their own pride events instead of trying to force their way into ours

queer/lgbtq spaces are not a catch-all for anything having to do with sexuality. after what our community did to build up these spaces for ourselves, it's necessary to allow us to keep it for us, instead of demanding that we allow aro and straight aces in

[dhamphir]

THIS! So much THIS!

[aschvanzandt]

have u ever been disowned by your parents bc ur asexy
have u ever lost ur job bc ur asexy
have u ever been threatened with death bc ur asexy

have u ever even worried about those things happening for even 1 day in ur life

if the answer is no (and i know it isn't) then guess wut: u r not oppressed

sit

the

fuck

down

[savannahdreamer]

so many +1s here. sweet gods.